Fourth International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Emotional Geographies
1-3 July 2013 at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Session: Occupied Emotions? The Emotional Geographies of Occupied Territories and Emergency Zones
Organizer:
Dr. Ariel Handel, Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Session abstract:
While both fields – geographies of emergency and occupation zones, on the one hand, and of emotional geographies, on the other hand – are on the rise, their combination is still waiting for realization. Emergency zones studies, from the Occupied Palestinian Territories to natural disasters, tend to emphasize power relations and deny human emotions and perceptions, whereas emotional geographies (such as represented in psychoanalytic, phenomenological, non-representational) tend to neglect power and power geometrics. We assume deep connections between these two domains, which are relevant to study for both scholarly, moral and political reasons. The aim of this interdisciplinary session is to investigate the impact of violence, uncertainty and differentiated power relations on human emotions, social and personal spatialities and place making.
We invite papers exploring the different dimensions of the emotional geographies of emergency and occupied zones. Those contributions include, but are not limited to:
· Spatial-emotional ethnographies of emergency and occupation zones
· Geographies of fear and hope
· Sense of place and displacement
· Violence, uncertainty and emotions
· The role of the senses in creating, analyzing and representing emergency and occupation zones.
· Gendered experiences of emergency and occupation zones
· Theoretical and conceptual contributions to the coupling of power relations and emotional geographies
Please send abstracts of approx. 300 words to [log in to unmask] by January 5th, 2013.
Ariel Handel is a postdoctoral fellow at the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a research fellow at the Minerva Humanities Center, Tel Aviv University. His research interests are human movement in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, mapping and spatial representations, and the political philosophy of geography. He is the head of the "Space and Power: A Political Lexicon" research group at the Minerva Humanities Center. His publications include Protest: A Political Lexicon (co-ed, 2012), Geographies of Occupation (forthcoming) and several journal papers and book chapters.